Health & Social Care A' Level (Full AS + A2) Course

Course Structure

Unit 1: F910: Promoting Quality Care

• What is quality care
• Attitudes and prejudices that affect quality care
• The rights and responsibilities of service users and providers
• How services are accessed
• Care values
• Promotion of quality care

Unit 2: F911: Communication in care settings

• Definition of communication
• Types of communication
• How communication is supported
• Barriers to effective communication
• Theories related to communication
• Communication skills
• Communicating/interaction with service users and/or practitioners

Unit 3: F912: Promoting Good Health

• Definitions of health and wellbeing
• Principles of health promotion
• The principles of positive health and wellbeing
• Preventative measures
• Job roles
• How to plan and carry out a health promotion campaign

A2 content and unit overview

Unit 4: F19: Care Practice and Provision

• The planning and provision of services
• The effects of national policy and legislation on provision of services and care practice
• Definition of quality assurance
• How quality assurance is promoted by services
• Conducting a quality assurance survey
• How services and practitioners meet the individual needs of service users
• The ways in which service practitioners work within partnerships

Unit 5: F20: Understanding Human Behaviour and Development

• Human development processes
• The factors that affect human development
• Theories of development
• How theoretical principles can be applied to aid the understanding of human behaviour and development

Unit 6: F21: Anatomy and Physiology in Practice

• Why anatomy and physiology is important to Health and Social care practice
• The respiratory system
• The cardiovascular system
• The digestive system
• The reproductive system
• The renal system
• The musculoskeletal system
• The neural system
• Lifestyle choices and their effects on health and wellbeing

OCR Course Codes:

H103 - AS Health & Social Care

H503 - A2 Health & Social Care

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